When I think about anime, my mind tends to drift toward its most (obviously) crucial trait: waves and waves of unending creatures intent on destroying me and everything I stand for. At least, that's what it would appear to be, if the latest SMITE update is to be believed.

Video games grow up so fast these days. One minute, they're just barely crawling out into the world, and the next, they're bounding over rooftops in a bloodthirsty pursuit of delicious brains. Techland is celebrating the three year anniversary of Dying Light with some new content, a new community event, and giveaways throughout the entire month of February.

Climax Studios' top-down loot shooter, RiftStar Raiders, has a release date in sight! The title will arrive first on PlayStation 4 on February 27, and then to Xbox One and PC on February 28 (and the Switch sometime after that). If you want to get your hands on it sooner, then good news! There's a free trial available now on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

After months of silence, Firaxis has quenched our thirst for details on the Rise and Fall update for Civilization VI (that’s 6, in good ol’ Roman) that was announced last year. Originally revealed back in November 2017, the latest details explain the planned additions in more depth, including religions playing a prominent role, different governors and their influence, the ways a Dark, Golden or Heroic age can diminish or amplify gameplay, and much more.

For the shortest month of the year Sony has given the PlayStation PLUS members another batch of free games! For the single-player audience, the 2017 adventure game Rime leads the way, but for the ones who play games to play them with friends, the ones who love Co-Op, and the ones who missed out on 2014’s PS4 exclusive, Knackwill be free.

Amidst all that talk of how the Windows version of Final Fantasy XV will take up 170 Gb of storage space for the highest of res graphics, there was an interesting little tidbit that popped up on the Microsoft Store listing for the title. That particular version of the game will allow you to team up with friends on the Xbox One to play the Comrades content together.

While Monster Hunter: World has been occupying much of our thoughts and gaming time, there are fun co-op titles lurking on the horizon. Like Dragon's Crown Pro, the remastered version of Vanillaware's already gorgeous brawler from the PS3. The title was originally announced for Japan only, and then in December Atlus said, &qu...

We've got kind of a bad-news, good-news situation on our hands. Bad news: the world is only down to one superhero, and it's being invaded by a mixture of limbless but hostile cat aliens, and magical girls. Good news: the remaining superhero is the Greatest Of All Time, when she's not too busy binging B-movie horror flicks to save the world. Bleed 2 finally breaks away from PC solitude to launch on consoles.

Well, wouldn't you know it. There's a fancy-lookin' co-op game out, and the whole Co-Opticrew (myself included) has dropped everything so they can watch, mouths agape, as its dinosaurs do dinosaur things. Can you blame us, though? I mean, those dinosaurs are like, really pretty. Also, who can argue with a cat that fights for you and loves you and I want them to be my forever friend oh my god.

Monster Hunter: Worldis the first big co-op release of 2018, so it should come as no surprise that we've been putting it through its paces and playing it every chance we get. In case you missed them earlier this week, we did two streams of it and you can catch the recaps after break.

Monster Hunter: World has been out for less than a week, but it appears that it's already pretty popular around the globe. Certainly there are a few of us on staff that have been enjoying our time in the New World tracking and bringing down Anjanaths, Pukei-Pukeis, and Barroths. If you're out there, too, having fun "hunning mons" with your friends, then Capcom's got a treat in store for you next month: free Street Fighter V costume DLC.